Riplox is a free video downloader for Windows that your phone can drive.
Share a link from any app on your phone and the download starts on your PC — at full quality,
straight to the hard drive. No cable, no re-typing the address, and the PC does not have to be
awake when you send it.
It is also an ordinary, complete downloader: paste a link and keep the video.
Your phone can drive it
Pair a phone once and its share sheet gains a Riplox entry. Share a video from anywhere and the PC
downloads it.
On the same Wi‑Fi the link goes straight across your own network — instant, and it works with no
internet connection at all. Away from home it travels through a relay that carries a sealed
envelope it cannot read. Only the link ever travels; the video is fetched by your PC on your PC's
own connection, and the PC never opens a port.
The phone does not have to install anything — a web page works. There is a small Android app if you
want one tap fewer, and a Windows sender if the other machine is a PC.
It gets the quality it says it will
Ask for the best and you get the best — 4K where a site has 4K, right down to 360p, or just the
audio as MP3 with cover art and tags. Files come out as MP4 that plays on Windows, on a phone and in
WhatsApp without hunting for a codec.
There is a second quality aimed at re‑uploading, for when you want the biggest possible file
rather than the one that plays everywhere — and it says so before you pick it.
It tells you what things cost
- Every quality shows how big the file will be before you choose it
- A running download shows how much has arrived, not just a percentage
- A finished download says what it actually got — 1080p, 2160p
It survives a bad afternoon
Changing Wi‑Fi does not fail a download — Riplox waits for the network and carries on. A download
that stops part‑way tries again on its own. One that goes quiet for a quarter of an hour is stopped
and told to you, rather than sitting on "downloading" all day.
Whole playlists, and a queue that remembers
Take a playlist or a channel section in one click — filter by title, sort by length, take the first
N, invert the selection. The queue runs several at once and survives a restart.
Subtitles, chapters and SponsorBlock segments where the site provides them, and a clip can be
trimmed without re‑encoding the whole file.
It runs from a USB stick
Unzip the portable build anywhere and everything Riplox saves — settings, history, the queue, the
phone pairing — stays in a Data folder beside the program. Nothing is written anywhere else on
the PC.
A browser extension
Shipped in the folder beside the app: one click on a video page sends the link across, with no
copying. Settings shows you where it is and the four steps to load it.
The small things
- A keyboard shortcut you choose yourself
- The Home box takes text as well as links — a key, a password, a Wi‑Fi code — sealed until copied
- Riplox asks its own questions, instead of a browser warning with an address in it
- Setup says plainly when a PC is too old, rather than installing something that cannot start
Which file do I want?
| Riplox_Setup.exe | Almost everyone. Installs for you alone unless you choose otherwise — no administrator rights needed. |
| Riplox_Portable.zip | A USB stick, or a PC you would rather not install on. |
| RiploxSend_Setup_v1.0.2.exe | Optional. Send links to this PC from another Windows PC. |
| RiploxSend_Android_v1.0.5.apk | Optional. Send links from an Android phone. A web page works too, with nothing installed. |
Windows 10 or 11, 64‑bit. Needs the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime, already present on Windows 11
and on any Windows 10 with a current Edge.
with a code‑signing certificate yet — not because anything was found in it. Choose More info →
Run anyway, and verify the checksum below if you want to be sure the file is the one we built.
Checksums
SHA256SUMS.txt is attached to this release. Verify with:
Get-FileHash .\Riplox_Setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256What changed in 1.4.1
Setup used to ask a question when the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime was missing, and an
unattended install has nobody to answer it - so it waited instead of failing. On a machine
without the Runtime, installing Riplox through winget or Chocolatey would hang.
Setup now installs the Runtime for you instead of asking. It carries Microsoft's official
1.7 MB bootstrapper, runs it only when the Runtime is absent, and leaves nothing behind
afterwards. If it cannot reach Microsoft's servers, Setup says so and installs Riplox anyway
rather than stopping.
The uninstaller had the same flaw and would have hung a silent uninstall the same way. Its
question now answers itself with No, which keeps your settings and history.
Nothing else changed. If 1.4.0 installed and runs for you, there is nothing here you need.
Already using Riplox?
Then some of the above is new and some of it is a fix. These are the five worth knowing about, and
every one of them is in 1.3.0 right now. They were found by using Riplox rather than testing it,
and all five were silent — nothing ever said anything was wrong.
- Your Library plays again. Riplox learns a file's name from the download engine, and it was
reading that name in the wrong character set — so any title with a curly quote, an accent or an
emoji got recorded slightly wrong. The file was fine; Riplox just had the wrong name for it, so
Play opened the folder instead of the video. On one real library that was 56 of 244 videos. - And when Play does open a folder, it now says why — the file has moved or been deleted. It
used to open the folder and leave you guessing whether the button was broken. - A download that gets stuck now gives up. If the engine stops saying anything for fifteen
minutes, Riplox stops it, moves it to Failed and tells you what happened. One link could
previously sit on "downloading" all day. - Closing Riplox now closes everything it started. The download engine used to keep running
after Riplox was gone — invisible, and using a whole processor core each. On one machine three of
them had piled up and eaten thirteen hours of processor time between them. - A page open in your browser could quietly discard a link your phone had just sent. The phone
said "sent" and the download never started. Nothing of yours could be read — the link is
encrypted the whole way — but the message was gone.
Two more things changed shape rather than broke: "Best available" used to stop at 1080p on a video
that had 4K sitting there (H.264 was a filter, and on YouTube H.264 stops at 1080p — it is a
tie‑break now, so you still get H.264 wherever a site offers that resolution in it), and the Windows
sender now keeps up when the PC changes address instead of falling back to the relay for ever.
Riplox is free software under the GPL‑3.0, built on
yt-dlp and FFmpeg.